Supreme Court of Florida· 5/18/2006

Reynolds v. State

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934 So. 2d 1128
2006 WL 1381880

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noting that this Court has long rejected the use of lingering doubt as a nonstatutory mitigating factor
declining to extend the rationale in Curtis to the trial court’s exclusion of hearsay statements from a third party that did not amount to a confession
death sentence was proportionate where one the victims was stabbed multiple times and beaten; and- the prior violent felony aggra-vator, HAC, two additional aggravators, and no statutory mitigators were found
death sentence was proportionate where one the victims was stabbed multiple times and beaten; and the prior violent felony aggravator, HAC, two additional aggravators, and no statutory mitigators were found
“To challenge jury instructions, a party must object to the form of those instructions and specifically state the grounds upon which the objection is based.” (citing Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.390(d))
“In moving for a judgment of acquittal, a defendant ‘admits not only the facts stated in the evidence adduced, but also admits every conclusion favorable to the adverse party that a jury might fairly and reasonably infer from the evidence.’”

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